Thread: Police: San Juan man's slaying wasn't planned as hit

Police: San Juan man's slaying wasn't planned as hit

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Investigators identify two more suspects, charge two others in botched kidnapping plot

Lindsay Machak
The Monitor

SAN JUAN -- The men who barged into the home of Roberto “Bobbyâ€

AND we keep being told that Cartel Violence has not come across into America. well here is a story that says otherwise

TX: Two men, hired by Cartel, sentenced in San Juan slaying
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Two men sentenced in San Juan slaying
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February 11, 2011 4:02 PM
Naxiely Lopez
The Monitor

EDINBURG — Two men pleaded guilty Friday for their roles in a fatal San Juan home invasion allegedly ordered by the Gulf Cartel last year.

Lucas Hernandez Peña, 43, and Oscar Gomez, 22, pleaded guilty to murder charges Friday in the 206th state District Court.

San Juan police arrested the men after they stormed into a home last May on the 2000 block of Sunset Drive and killed 21-year-old Roberto Hinojosa in front of his wife and young son.

The men claimed they were hired by the Gulf Cartel to kidnap Hinojosa, who had stolen more than a ton of marijuana — an action Hinojosa’s family still finds difficult to believe.

“I still don’t believe he was involved in what they said he was,â€

[quote]“They are as guilty as the shooter,â€